Saturday, July 08, 2006

podcast no 29 - Beauty and the Beast?

Play today's podcast (to download to your computer or mp3 player - right-click, then save as ...)

I've had all the music in today's podcast on my mp3 player for a few months, and I really had to get round to playing these tracks. Apologies to all the artists. Also, there's a more vigorous rock edge to all today's music.

Forza Italia! Today's first track is
Mystical Elysian Love by Belladonna, from Rome. Belladonna have just completed a few gigs in the UK, so I really should have played them earlier.

Then Echograph from Scotland, with
Break Me Down. Echograph say that they play guitars and drums and sing. They do indeed!

After that I played
Moving To The Movement, by Jane Air from London. I played 2 Jane Air songs in podcast no 13. Moving to the Movement is from a new ep the band are presently working on, called Us:Them, to be released in the autumn.

Allez les Bleus! I finished with 2 tracks by the excellent (even if they number Yes amongst their influences) Hauteville from Paris.
From Adam to Atom is followed by Monster.

In the podcast I talked about my very basic Heath Robinson type podcasting set up. Here are a couple of photos. The first is of the mic and the pc monitor with audacity up (note the desk lamp as microphone stand, with plastic g-clamp and pencil to hold the mic in place.) The second shows the kit.

Soundbed music for today's show was by
Cagey House, Torchomatic and Map. The title music is by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

1 comment:

Grant - Three From Leith said...

Echograph - great, raucous Scots rock from Chris and his pals. I can't wait to hear what's next from then. They sent me a lovely badge with their CD last year and the postie nicked it ! Harrumph !

And Hauteville... caught me by surprise and snuck up from behind. Their second track was stunningly well produced. A real gem.

Your setup just goes to show that you don't need to spend a lot to sound damn good. Maybe you should make up little kits and sell them ?!